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> "Plus a hostile takeover of Nokia would probably start a bidding war with Microsoft as white knight."

If I were in charge of Apple and more evil, I'd do it just for that. Start a bidding war with the intention to lose it - and force Microsoft into an extremely expensive acquisition that it would have no hope of properly managing or exploiting.

Then again, it would be a $10bn game of chicken...
I disagree, if you did any application programming in the mid to late eighties in C/C++, TCP/Sockets, CORBA, Sybase, and X11, about 90% of your experience directly translates to today's Web based application development.

Hell, if you use a Linux development environment you will feel right at home.
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It should allow you to upload your own .vimrc, and map these keyboard shortcuts to the one you have specified.
I'm not being biased against Eclipse, I'm just wondering if the productivity loss its crashing and lack of editing functionality inflict is less than the productivity gain from being 100% accurate at renaming variables.
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The Space Shuttle was designed and built by a private contractor (North American Rockwell) after a competitive selection process among many private parties; even in the SpaceX case, the funding is provided by the government to private parties through the age-old bidding process. So I'm not sure what's so revolutionary here, especially given an almost zero potential for space profits absent government support. Mining the asteroids might be an opportunity the private sector could exploit in a few decades.
I stopped using it as it conflicted with the key bindings of various websites such as Gmail, and because I want to use a desktop setup that does not impede me from using other computers. I mostly just need to scroll down (Space button), and focus the address bar (Alt+D) anyway. I think that way of selecting links is really cool, but I often found myself selecting the wrong one because of mistypes or misreads.
So helpful! Thank you.
Speaking for myself, I'm most productive when I work roughly a 3 day week, with 4 days to chill and goof off. So I do that (when customer stuff and my travel schedule allows), and I hope that my employees who feel similarly would do the same. Sort of the opposite of staying late to set an example.
Very true. I think this also extends to running (non-unit) tests and deploying: doing them often is a hallmark of good development, but running them even on a somewhat frequent basis is a huge time sink. Definitely a tough trade-off.
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Another way to combat this is make it easier for people to publish data that goes against their hypothesis and still give them 'points' for it. Part of the problem in academic labs is that there is this race to publish papers to get more funding to publish more papers to get more funding and so on. If journals stopped treating data that goes against an initial hypothesis as 'bad data' there would be a incentive to still publish it, and ideally, prevent someone else from repeating the same experiment/hypothesis.
Can you give examles of these "best practices"?
How many are not caught? Particularly in non-scientific-method subjects like psychology? Or data heavy non repeatables like sociology?
Funny you mention play.golang.org as that's exactly what I'd love to be running locally to edit go and ruby, and run it as I edit. Guess I'm old fashioned but prefer to edit locally.

As you say, in theory at least not too hard to wrap in WebKit, but I have a feeling it might be more work than it first appears, and am too busy right now to attempt it and was hoping someone else had. Maybe one day. Thanks for elaborating.
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If you like vimium, pentadactyl and vimperator, but wished you could have them without chrome or firefox, check out uzbl, luakit and dwb - three examples of webkit based browsers that adhere to the UNIX philosophy of doing one thing well.
They currently have phone gap and the relayed build service which let's you make an html5 app and build to native for every mobile platform
You might find the Personal Software Process to be of interest.
I'm a freelancer and, from time to time, my billable hours come to a screeching halt when I can't get the client to tell me what they want done next.

It's a risk of the model. Part of why freelancers cost more per hour.
I suspect in most of those cases, the car manufacturer chooses not to import the car because of regulatory issues or because it doesn't think there's a large enough market for that type of car in a given country. Car manufacturers generally don't care about such sales.

The grey market sales various businesses do object to usually have to do with geographic price segmentation. It doesn't seem ethical to me for governments to help companies protect that business model.
Is there much going on in Portland, OR?
This is probably the best way to launch an argument. Currently Ubuntu is probably the simplest to get up and running. However, many people will probably recommend a different distro.

No matter what OS you install, as long as it's not Windows it won't be vulnerable to Windows attacks. Linux, for example, will be theoretically vulnerable to Linux attacks, however there are few in number and they generally get patched before someone can take advantage of them. If you want the maximum in security that would probably be one of the BSDs; however, bear in mind that there is less software available for BSD than for Linux.

TrueCrypt can be used to lock a partition, a backup file, or an encrypted container for everyday use. It's pretty simple to use, and you can even set it up to lock your home folder (which then gets automatically unlocked by your password when you log in).
This is true for teaching children the value of persistence and effort.

In a work environment, however, it teaches everyone that all that is valued is wasteful heroics.
I'm pretty sure they're just burning plants for energy.
That's hardly unusual. Not doing that would be more unusual.
Out of curiosity, is such a move legal? Is there some sort of requirement that one bid in good faith or some such concept? As that would be a fairly nasty thing to do.
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It's not the exact opposite necessarily. It's very possible to have both the first-sale doctrine and droit de suite in the same copyright law.

In Norway for example we have the first-sale doctrine, but when original versions of artwork, valued over 3000 Euro, are resold the original artist shall receive around 5% of the transaction (unless the artwork is sold to a museum that displays the art to the public).
It's also because of unions that far few people are losing their life at the workplace. Seems like a reasonable trade-off to me.
A friend of mine makes a nice light-following robot:

http://www.hackerspaceshop.com/solarroboflower-kit-eco.html

Its not $10, but still pretty affordable, and a very fun project to do with kids ..
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828538
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The extra teaching resources are there and available for students that want or need them. Most students just care not to.
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> Furthermore if you are going to overwrite something in flash it usually behooves you to overwrite an entire block at a time.

Well, all block devices are written a block at a time. The way flash differs is that there are two internal block sizes -- called pages (4-8kB), and eraseblocks (256kB-4MB).

There are two states a page can be in: clear, or used. You can write at a page granularity, but only to clear pages. To clear used pages, you need to clear the entire eraseblock at a time. Eraseblock sizes are now limited by fundamental physical limits -- on every NAND node shrink from now, the eraseblocks are going to double in size. And they are already really huge in modern devices.
its getting pretty old though
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And yet after a year, normal usage cracked the screen (weak point surround the front button.)
If you need Windows-only applications (in particular, the MS Office suite), you may run into problems on Linux. There are "equivalents" for Linux, but, for example, if you want to be able to send someone a .pptx and know that it will look the same on their Windows computer as it does on yours, you would either need to run Windows navively on the machine, or run it inside a virtual machine.
Might be good to note that Pentadactyl doesn't currently work with FF15.
Mert: this svbtle theme is nice but it makes you look cheap.

I'm not affiliated to svbtle in any way, just think that it's terrible taste to use such a blatant copy of someone else's website, specially for someone who works in tech.
My ISP doesn't block port 25, but since my IP address is technically dynamic, it's on Spamhaus' Policy Black List. That said, my ISP offers SMTP servers for proxying outgoing messages, so I used that for a while. I switched to a VPS because my home server died.
Misleading headline. Article is referring to Java plugin in the browser; Not Java, the technology.
How do you square this sort of mindset with the well-known demands of entrepreneurship?

Because the 'well-known demands' are mostly socially constructed myths rather than reality. Because people are really bad at tracking stuff-done and find tracking hours-worked and looking at stuff-to-do much easier to think about. Because people a really fucking awful at figuring out how productive they are.

I have been a team coach multiple times where I have demonstrated by, weirdly, actually tracking the amount of work done that teams working fewer hours were producing more work. The amount of push back from these sorts of results from management and the team is incredible.

People know that if they only stayed a bit later they would get more done despite lots of evidence, by our tracking stories completed, bug reports, user satisfaction, etc. all went down the more hours people worked.

Tired people make mistakes. Tired people work slowly. You can be tired without 'feeling' tired. In anything but the very short term (and I'm talking days, maybe a week or two tops) trying to do hard intellectual, creative work for more than 30-40 hours a week will make you slower overall - not faster.

Hell - Ford promoted the 40 hour week as the maximum productivity point for physical labour on a production line... and we somehow imagine that working 60 hour weeks is going to make us do more.

People still seem to conceptualise 60 hour weeks as 40 normal hours + 20 extra. In fact it's 60 hours of being knackered where you're probably being half as productive as you would be if you were fully rested - but you're too damn tired to realise it.
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Surely it would be easier to find error than to prove fraud. I feel I am missing something that is obvious...
"Visas."

I live on a small island in a small city and I wont be short of work for the next 20 years.

Developers/programmers are hard to find. Finding good ones that pass the interview process are even harder.
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Some of the data is built from computer vision on aerial photos.
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I don't know if it's a change in the areas I'm working in, or because my network has reached some sort of critical mass, but I've found myself doing a lot of introducing over the last year or so.

It's strangely satisfying to get folk who should talk, to talk.
In my experience, the only ones doing that are spammers which assume that a secondary SMTP has no antispam filters configured.
Yeah - that used to me my classic avoidance pattern. "Damn - that's a good idea. Need to do that properly" ;-)
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I'm a huge fan of making introductions, but remember the double-opt-in introduction:

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/11/the-double-optin-introductio...

it's the right way to go about doing this, so you don't inadvertently waste people's time, leak information about something that wasn't public, etc.
The days when every company maintained its own mail server are gone (and on the whole we're better off).
Like http://codecrap.com ?
why is everyone else's evidence anecdotal?
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Doesn't a logical proof count as evidence? To my mind, these two methods are demonstrating the same thing: considering all the possible inputs, we can show [using logic|by testing them all] that the output meets our criteria.

To my mind, in this context, the difference between maths and physics is that maths is exhaustive while in physics we don't usually have exhaustive evidence so we have to work with what we've got.
Possibly US-biased view? From my experience developer certificates are more common among developers than professional certificates among doctors.
No, ethnicity is genetic. Race is just something people made up.

Han Chinese, for example, are genetically distinct from ethnic Japanese, even thought to an ignorant white man they both look "the same".
Just for what it's worth in case anyone's considering not trying Vimium on this basis, you can disable Vimium for selected sites by clicking on the V logo next to the navigation bar.

Also FWIW, but I find Vimium convenient just for j, k, J, K, G & gg on most sites. :)
Pow is open-source (pow.cx) - feel free to try adding PHP to it. In my experience, PHP is far more complicated due to php.ini configurations and installation. Rack lends itself a bit better to this kind of hosting.
Facebook for one. Anything with a large number of anchors and forms absolutely kills the performance.
People don't talk about Portland nearly enough. Let's keep it that way, eh?
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After that, having spent a good length of time in Boston, I can say that there is a small but very healthy startup community there.

Boston's tech community isn't small, it's just spread out around the entire ring-highway encircling metro Boston.
Rushton's assertion that there was some genetic influence is still not clearly answered with this article, simply dismissed.

It is clear that environmental variables affect g-loaded test scores (one example showed that black children raised in white households test higher than black children raised in black households on average) almost always related to family income, but there is still a weird small percentage that just can't be explained away.

That is the genetic factor that Ruston and others believe exist. For example, white and black children raised from birth in the same household (predominantly white or black household, either one) have this weird gap where the white kids test better on g-loaded assessments.

SAT scores are positively correlated to g-loaded test assessments. The College Board's 2005 SAT data shows a 10 point combined advantage for white kids with family income under $10,000 over black kids with family income over $100,000!

I have no idea the reason behind that leftover unexplained gap. I have never read an article from the genetic or environmental side that adequately explained it in context of the obvious difference that environment makes.
I think he means if Facebook locks you out/suspends your accounts, not that you've forgotten your password.
Spot on.

This is what many startups miss when promoting technologies to Fortune 500 companies.

In the enterprises usually you don't change stuff for the sake of it, unless you're trying to keep the budget for the next year and need to avoid having it reduced.

As such it is easier to introduce incremental changes as radical new ideas.
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Hey, thanks for the response! I just didn't want anyone getting screwed over by unscrupulous behaviour!
This is a good one:
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That's very sweet, but the problem with this idea is that hours worked is very easy to measure - But value created is much harder. Even if you could measure that relatively precise, what happens if an employee spends a lot of time on a task that later turns out to be worthless. Are you going to punish him for that? That hardly seems fair.

Basically, we measure time worked because it correlates pretty good with effort made and that in turn tends to correlate with value produced. Unless you work in a field where the value is easily measured (Like sales), there really is no alternative.
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What does this have to do with Assange? Assange is being extradited because he's accused of raping something. There's been nothing irregular - just Assange et al inventing implausible fictional motives behind the extradition request.
Any reason why the Pow installer turns off my Wi-Fi? Also I get the following error from the installer: "!!! Couldn't resolve configured domains (dev)"

Novel idea. Too bad it doesn't work :/
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No. We don't have means of teleporting matter; this is a problem; and we can't blame it on lack of vision yet. We don't know how to do it, don't know if it's physiclly possible.

Sure you can automate more and more things, in this case programmer will be the last [productive] job remaining. One that slowly wane when more and more things are fully automatic and all other jobs already gone.
Like http://govnokod.ru/ :)
The second sentence in the article's title "Pull the Plug-in" should be included.
What an appalling headline. OP should skulk back off to slashdot where they belong.
This article completely omits the question of laws. As far as I know, they get quite convoluted in this regard in some of the countries. I remember that once my father's company got the idea to give out some stock, they found out that doing that legally was pretty hard. What they finally did was selling the stock at what they perceived market value, giving at the same time cash bonus equal to that value. If it's going to be that complicated in your case, you'd better be pretty sure that people are really interested in the stock...
When was it ever "needed"? What could not exist without Java?
> we can't find enough decent devs for any money

I don't believe that for a second. For $500K/year you will have top 3% developers moving to your office tomorrow (unless you're in Iraq or some other messed up place).

What that means is that your budgets suck.
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Thanks for this. As a first generation US citizen, there are times when I feel like maybe I fell short and should've aimed "higher", because I consider how easily programming comes to me that I figure it's easy for anyone, child's play compared to "hard" engineering and science like Physics, Electrical Engineering, or medical studies, law, etc. But it's true, like you said: the simple fact is that I love programming, so I figure that I'm fortunate enough to have found something I love doing so much, and will also (hopefully) allow me to live comfortably while doing it.
I guess this may not have originally been written for tech crunch but it comes across as intentionally opaque for a general tech website. Wouldn't be to hard to extend on the acronyms and provide some links that explain them to a general tech audience.
The article pretty much described metal working around Chicago a few decades ago.
I left that part out on purpose by wanting to focus more on the softer side of things, but I agree this is a problematic issue. Easier in some European countries, harder in some others. The tax laws also keep changing all the time. Saying that, I believe it is possible to solve that part in any European country even today.
Nothing. But that's true of every single programming language ever invented, so that doesn't tell us anything.
"So the verdict is clear. Disable Java plug-ins in all browsers, whether Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer. Java’s glory days are over and it’s time to pull the plug."

Well, make my bank have non-java web interface, then. Because while they are actually one of the better ones here [in Hungary], they still use a Java-based client.

(yes I can disable it in other browsers than my daily one and make it click-to-play but still. Can't live without it entirelly.)
Interestingly, I find the mobile version much more readable on my laptop.
Son, you don't have to start jumping up and down and gibbering excitedly about the singularity. This ain't hard.

All life uses energy. All civilizations will always use energy, because they are made of life forms. (biological or silicon-- who cares)

If civilizations grow steadily, then their need for energy will grow steadily. If they don't flame out, then they'll need to expand beyond their host planet, and intercept more solar energy, until eventually all sunlight is captured, and you've got a Dyson sphere.

If civilizations grow until they hit a threshold, then stay steady-state for the rest of the universe's lifespan, then we'll only be able to detect them if the threshold is pretty big-- if they just stay on their planet, then they'll be hard to spot, without really big space telescopes.
Everybody is bad at estimating tasks. When I ask project managers how long it will take them to get the specification drafted "1 week" means at least two :)

I'm not being defensive, I agree with the OP, just think it extends to everyone.

Specifically in programming there is a problem when working with suboptimal teams. Many times as a freelancer I've worked for an "experienced project manager". Don't get me wrong, these are charismatic and smart people who know how to motivate and organise a team. But can't for the life of them write a proper technical specification.

So obviously that means an unexpected drafting process (back and forth between us) or I work on an incomplete spec (and all the delays that entails).

It works the other way too. I've still not been able to pin down the best way to do design feedback with clients (if anyone has tips, please let me know: tom@errant.me.uk). Currently they spec what they want and then we trade emails and phone calls to make tweaks until it is ready.

When you work remotely this gets even harder - catching each other in phone calls is difficult, you have to trade several emails just to organise it. And usually that even gets scuppered by a last minute flake out. If you have a good project manager at the other end that's not so much a problem of course.

Estimating time is hard, but I always overestimate by about a factor of two. On the basis that when I make it under time it looks good, and the client doesn't get disappointed. When contracting this is even harder because "2 days work" isn't a completion estimate, so you have to say things like "It's a couple of days work, and if I get it into my schedule I should have it done by next Friday").

And then there is the inevitable; "oh yes, but we meant that as well..."

The bottom line; get. a. proper. specification. :) Saves most headaches.